AL-HIJR (AL-HIJR, STONELAND, ROCK CITY) : 28-44
15:28. Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man, from sounding clay from mud moulded into shape;
15:29. "When I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of My spirit, fall ye down in obeisance unto him."
15:30. So the angelrostrated themselves, all of them together:
15:31. Not so Iblis: he refused to be among those who prostrated themselves.
15:32. (Allah) said: "O Iblis! what is your reason for not being among those who prostrated themselves?"
15:33. (Iblis) said: "I am not one to prostrate myself to man, whom Thou didst create from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape."
15:34. (Allah) said: "Then get thee out from here; for thou art rejected, accursed.
15:35. "And the curse shall be on thee till the day of Judgment."
15:36. (Iblis) said: "O my Lord! give me then respite till the Day the (dead) are raised."
15:37. (Allah) said: "Respite is granted thee
15:38. "Till the Day of the Time appointed."
15:39. (Iblis) said: "O my Lord! because Thou hast put me in the wrong, I will make (wrong) fair-seeming to them on the earth, and I will put them all in the wrong,-
15:40. "Except Thy servants among them, sincere and purified (by Thy Grace)."
15:41. (Allah) said: "This (way of My sincere servants) is indeed a way that leads straight to Me.
15:42. "For over My servants no authority shalt thou have, except such aut themselves in the wrong and follow thee."
15:43. And verily, Hell is the promised abode for them all!
15:44. To it are seven gates: for each of those gates is a (special) class (of sinners) assigned.
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